Clearcover is looking for a Data Engineer to build fast pipelines and maintain the data sources and data stores that power our business decisions. We’re building a smarter choice for car insurance and want you to join us on this mission.

Data Engineering is responsible for transforming and ingesting data into our data warehouse and providing frameworks and services for operating on that data.  Our data comes from a multitude of sources, including our eventing pipeline, write-ahead logs, APIs and legacy flat files.

Responsibilities

• Building pipelines for a wide variety of data sources and maintaining their mapped schemas
• Building and maintaining the core datasets for ML and Analytics
• Ensuring privacy, compliance and security protocols for our data
• Integrating our core data assets into the rest of the technical organization and products
• Providing technical mentorship to fellow Engineers and Analysts

About You

• Passionate about data
• Experience implementing, testing, debugging and deploying data pipelines using 2+ of the following tools: Luigi, Airflow, Celery, AWS Glue, Kafka, Kinesis, Flume, Alooma.
• Experience with 1+ Big Data technologies: Redshift, BigQuery, Spark, Cassandra, MongoDB, Hadoop (HDFS/Yarn)
• Experience with SQL DB administration (PostgreSQL, MS SQL, etc.)
• 2+ years of Python (including Pandas and SciPy). Bonus points for published projects that are well tested and well documented.
• Familiarity with BI tools: Periscope, Tableau, Looker
• Familiarity with containerization: Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos
• Team oriented, possessing strong collaboration skills

If you were a Data Engineer @ Clearcover for the past month, you would have:

• Attended architecture meetings around upcoming new features.
• Worked closely with our Product team to flush out high-level features into consumable chunks.
• Provided clear functional requirements and design work to accomplish the task at hand.
• Worked in well-designed codebases and have full autonomy to improve them.
• Have your code reviewed by developers with solid development principles.
• Partook in weekly retros where we discussed improvements, and acknowledged our accomplishments as a team.
• Dug into Periscope or Sumologic to build your own dashboard to monitor the performance of features you've built or something else you're curious about.
• Worked from home whenever you needed it.
• Attended an All-Hands meeting where clear transparency was provided around company goals and it's outlook. (And some other fun tidbits).
• Enjoyed a happy hour where you got to build a personal relationship with a few of your fellow co-workers.
• Had 1-on-1's with your manager to build a relationship and talk about your growth.
• Played a game of HORSE on our basketball hoop.

About Us

Clearcover, a Chicago-based company, provides high-quality car insurance at lower prices than traditional insurance carriers by applying advanced technology, refraining from expensive advertising and passing along the cost savings to customers. Clearcover has been featured in Forbes, Inc. and Venturebeat, for our innovative approach to changing the car insurance experience.